Workshops:
12-1pm: Christopher Wilde; Queers in Stardust and the Spiders from Halifax.
1-2pm: Z is for Zine! Kids' zine writing workshop.
Recommended for kids age 6-14. Kids will learn the significance of DIY periodicals along with basic zine making skills. Supplies are included, but feel free to bring rubber stamps, stickers and / or old magazines to contribute to the mix. Molly Edler, OnMilwaukee.com writer and zine maker, will hostess this workshop.
2-4pm: The Advantage and Disadvantage of Zine: Cambodia's first generation of women leaders explore democracy.
Moores ongoing work, based in Phnom Penh Cambodia, links international human rights issues, girlhood, and self-publishing. Moore spent a winter teaching 32 young Cambodian women leaders self-publishing in the first all-girls dormitory in the history of the country. Although the concept of self-publishing is not new in Cambodiathe lack of publishers often makes it the only publishing optionthe dormitory, and its feminist roots, are. Moreover, due to the current political climate in Cambodia, journalists and writers frequently find themselves threatened for expressing political or social views, and visual artists are discouraged from drawing from a very early age. So although the concept of self-publishing exists, few examples of it do. Yet as a group of 33, the dorm residents and Moore created close to 50 zines on topics as diverse as rice production and agriculture in contemporary society, womens issues, spirituality, health care in the countryside, and Cambodias unique and disturbing genocidal history. New Girl Law is a letter-pressed, hand-bound book created in conjunction with the 32 young Cambodian women leaders in Phnom Penh. Over a two-week period these women collaborated on a revision of the traditional text known as Girl Law, which circumscribes proper roles for women in Cambodian culture. Our version calls for basic human rights, gender equity, the eradication of corruption, and funding for cultural production. It is a re-envisioning of a potential future for the country. Co-written in Phnom Penh, and printed at AS220's Community Print Shop in Providence, Rhode Island, New Girl Law has been the subject of several international discussions of women's position in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including two among groups of economically disadvantaged creative young women in Providence and San Antonio. This lecture includes excerpts from the audio documentary, New Girl Law Audio Book, that features audio from discussions of girls (and human) rights held while creating the book in Phnom Penh (with a voiceover by a Providence contributor). It offers fascinating insight into how young womeninternationally and locallyposition themselves in relation to world politics and the economy.
This work has been featured in Chicago exhibitions Holle Cambodia (at ThreeWalls gallery) and Dismantling the Corporate State and Other Amusements (at Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts) as well as in Time Out Chicago, Make/Shift, and Print. This lecture has been given at the University of Chicago; Women, Action, and Media 2008; and in venues and workshop spaces across the United States.
4-5pm: One Page Zines workshop
5-6pm: Unique collage technique with printed media workshop. hands on!
"Selling Zines 101" will be at the Loop Distro Table by Billy The Bunny during the entire festival :)
Post Festival Events-
At Jackpot Gallery
825 E. Center St
Milwaukee, WI, 53212
Starting at 8pm:
"if it ain't cheap, it ain't punk: D. un I. t Y."
a film about plan it x records and diy punk
60 minutes.
9pm: Kidults (Chicago acoustic-style project)
9:45pm: Kota Jacob (acoustic singer/songwriter)
10:30pm: Dave's Project.